New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio has warned about giving technological rights to artificial intelligence tools while noting that they are showing signs of self preservation and humans should also be prepared to pull the plug if needed.

In an interview with The Guardian, Bengio compared giving legal status to cutting-edge AIs to granting citizenship to "hostile extraterrestrials".

Bengio, a Turing award winner, is popularly known as the 'Godfather of AI' along with Yann Lecun and Geoffrey Hinton, for their contribution to the field. However, in the last few years, Bengio has grown sketpical of the technology and has even previously warned that development of hyperintelligence machines could lead to the extinction of humanit...